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I don't think you understand. As a retailer, we don't want to charge customers extra for bags. Little things like that can discourage sales. What I'm asking is what's stopping a retailer from just not charging the premium.
Absolutely. I'm running all over the place, got kids to take care of etc...if I'm walking by the grocer I'll pop in to grab a bunch of stuff. Now I'll just pop in to grab one item or whatever I can fit in my pocket.
Its easier to have my pockets stuffed with bags on the subway trip home from work than to have them in the trunk of my car? The easiest thing for me to do is to take the grocery cart home with me and then leave it on the curb for the homeless man to take back to the store.
Me living here in NYC, I am much more environmentally friendly than those wannabes out there in California with their driveways full of multiple vehicles. Then they pass these silly laws to make them feel better about themselves.
Garbage disposal also costs cities money. This isn't just environmental, but financial. In fact they are probably using the environmental angle as an excuse.
Just like it's easier to justify raising taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, and casinos.
I don't think you understand. As a retailer, we don't want to charge customers extra for bags. Little things like that can discourage sales. What I'm asking is what's stopping a retailer from just not charging the premium.
Retailers pay taxes, and if during an audit the city sees that nothing was ever charged at the store for the bags, that retailer is in trouble.
Its easier to have my pockets stuffed with bags on the subway trip home from work than to have them in the trunk of my car? The easiest thing for me to do is to take the grocery cart home with me and then leave it on the curb for the homeless man to take back to the store.
Me living here in NYC, I am much more environmentally friendly than those wannabes out there in California with their driveways full of multiple vehicles. Then they pass these silly laws to make them feel better about themselves.
A reusable bag doesn't take up much space, and they hold more stuff anyway
And if you have to pay 20 cents or whatever, it's not a big dent in a 100 dollar grocery bill. And then you could just reuse those bags as many times as you want.
There's the cost of traveling out of the city (depending on where you live) and then if it takes up a lot of time, time is money. I live in Manhattan and yes I could find cheaper stuff at grocery stores in Queens, Jersey, or Brooklyn. But the trip is too time consuming via public transportation, and if I were driving there's GAS and TOLL costs.
Wonder how many of the people here complaining about how incovenient the fee is have went to stores to get the deposit back on their soda cans and bottles.
we throw most of the small plastic bags out, we have no need for them.
I know a lot of people use them for their garbage, I do get that....
When we do a big food shopping we use those plastic "plaid laundry" bags to carry the groceries, and since we live on the 4th floor of a walk up, we try to do it in one shot.
But since we have so many littler bugs around, and their ARE plastic bags all over the place, hopefully, this will make a difference.
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